It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.

Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.

America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.

A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

It's an unfair world, Child. Be glad you have friends.

Shuki’s wisdom: "Sometimes things happen, and the only choice you have is to accept it, and learn to make a life anyway.

The dreams you craft at the level of your soul are very different from goals, which are tangible, measurable and set the future.

Two rules: You enter without breaking. And you remember that nobody misses what you don't take.

The more you like yourself, the better you do at everything you put your mind to.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

I love a tree more than a man.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

I'm not a part of any organized practices, but I believe heavily on love and the universe and what you give is what you get.